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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Z8B_4023.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated July 9, 2026 12:16PM The 2026 Tour de France was supposed to be the closest in years. Tadej Pogačar needed just six stages to blow that storyline to pieces. The first mountain finish of the 2026 Tour delivered the same brutal truth that the peloton’s been struggling with for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/stage-7.jpg”] Jim Cotton Published July 9, 2026 10:57AM Hagetmau – Bordeaux: 175.1km / 850m+ Look at it. It’s long, and it’s flat. Stage 7 of the Tour de France into Bordeaux is a guaranteed bunch sprint, and there’s not much more to say. One potential wrinkle? Any impact of the weather. While the area is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2285363827.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated July 9, 2026 11:22AM Tadej Pogačar went thermonuclear under the Pyrénéan sun on stage 6 of the Tour de France. Pogačar unleashed a brutal high-mountain attack Thursday that blew away all his GC rivals in the first high-mountain stage of the race. The four-time champion blasted out of his…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Etapa-5-%C2%A9-Sprint-Cycling-12.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated July 9, 2026 06:13AM Alex Molenaar was center of a brutal high-speed crash the tore apart the final of stage 5 of the Tour de France, but he doesn’t know a thing about it. The 26-year-old came to the line in Pau dazed, confused, and 7 minutes back after…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2284201611.jpg”] Andrew Hood Published July 8, 2026 05:04PM Jonas Vingegaard and Visma-Lease a Bike are bracing for the Tour de France nightmare scenario of trying to cover attacks from Tadej Pogačar and Isaac del Toro. The UAE Emirates-XRG’s two-headed monster could light up Thursday’s sixth stage across the heart of the Pyrénées in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bugatti-x-Factor-One-bike_Sothebys-v2.jpg”] Josh Ross Updated July 8, 2026 04:49PM Today, Velo received information about “A New Luxury Summer Auction Furthering Sotheby’s Commitment to the Middle East & Celebrating Materiality as the Essence of Luxury.” Nothing to pay attention to for a cycling publication, right? Except the note was about one of the most audacious…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2284649509.jpg”] Andrew Hood Published July 8, 2026 01:23PM Jonas Vingegaard barely escaped disastrous time losses Wednesday in a nervous crash-marred finale on stage 5 of the Tour de France. A fast bike swap and a favorable race jury ruling kept the Visma-Lease a Bike leader level with Tadej Pogačar just a day before…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/stage-6.jpg”] Jim Cotton Published July 8, 2026 11:29AM Pau – Gavarnie-Gèdre: 186.2km / 4,100m The Col d’Aspin. The Col du Tourmalet. The Tour de France wouldn’t be the same without these Pyrénéan brutes. They’ve been crushing quads almost every year since 1910, the year the peloton first entered the Pyrénées in a notorious course known as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2285224639-scaled-e1783526088677.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated July 8, 2026 11:52AM Olav Kooij proved he was worth the roster selection by Decathlon CMA-CGM on Wednesday by delivering a stage win at his first Tour de France. The Dutchman blasted to the line ahead of Max Kanter (XDS Astana) and alpha sprinter Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step) on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/look-cover.png”] David Everett Published July 8, 2026 09:22AM The Tour de France is officially underway, and for tech fans, that means one thing: new bikes. With hilly stages, flat sprints, and a team time trial already behind us, the pre-release prototypes are finally out in the open, giving us a complete look at…